PING - April 27, 1965

April 27, 1965 sealed a place in history for the Mace of the Bahamas’s House of Assembly. On that day Lynden Pindling, Leader of the Opposition in that parliamentary chamber, tossed the object from an upper window into the street below in a bid to galvanize supporters to press for electoral change. But while ‘Black Tuesday,’ as the day was later dubbed, lifted the Mace to its greatest prominence, the Mace had already won for itself a storied, albeit lesser-told, past. On this day, the governing United Bahamian Party sought the approval for a Boundaries Draft Order, which established the boundaries for the various constituencies of New Providence and the Family Islands, under the provisions...View all